LA Weekly Begins New Embed Project With Lindsay Lohan

In a bow to the groundbreaking Entryway project, in which two young, white "reporters" have embedded themselves with a Spanish-only immigrant couple in the Westlake District, LA Weekly has decided to probe how the real, hardworking underbelly of L.A. lives by embedding a two-reporter team of minority journalists with Lindsay Lohan.

As we speak, the writers have undergone immersion training in the linguistic communication of wealthy young Anglo women by spending a week deep inside the Christian Louboutin boutique at South Coast Plaza. Following that exercise, the duo will then go on a Robertson Boulevard shopping spree with a special focus on Kitson and its environs.

What we really want to know is how the paparazzi-plagued and constantly adored survive in this cold, hard city on just a few mil a year. Do they walk and talk like us, or is there a special code used only by this misunderstood L.A. minority group?

Dennis Romero has worked on staff at several magazines and newspapers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Los Angeles Times, where he participated in Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the L.A. riots. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone online, the Guardian, and, as a
young stringer, the New York Times.